I'm the podcast you married. The only time you liked yourself was when you were trying to be someone this podcast might like, I'm not a quitter. I'm that podcast. I killed for you.
Who else can say that? You think you'd be happy with a nice Midwestern podcast? No way, baby. I'm it.
That's what I thought you were going to do. Thank you. I couldn't do all of Cool Girl despite the fact that it will disappoint some people. You're doing Cool Girl would I would have actually quit the podcast.
You would have been not because it's too long because the idea of you saying some of that would be a little tough. You married this podcast. You can't quit. I quit.
I would quit. I quit. I'll go to jail. It's fine.
Jail for me. You're not even sorry. You're not even sorry. You can't get out of it now.
No, Missouri does have the death penalty. No, I said you're not in the dark. Yes. Oh, but New York also has the death penalty.
This is Blank Check with Griffin and David. I'm Griffin. I do it. It's a podcast about filmography, directors who have massive success early on in their careers and are given a series of blank checks to make whatever crazy passion products they want.
Sometimes those checks clear and sometimes they bounce. Baby. Mm-hmm. This is a mini series on films of David Fincher.
It is called The Curious Pod of Benjamin Buttcast. We're only going to get to say that one more time. Second to the last one we're recording. Yes.
Yes. Listeners will hear it multiple more times. Yeah. We've only got the killer left to do after this.
Yeah, but also by the way, there's only one film chronologically for listeners in between this and the killer. It's just it kind of it remains wild that he goes cold for so long after this movie. He made a TV show. We've talked about so many times, but it's just very indicative of what changed in the industry over the last nine years.
We had to make. He had to make it up, but it took six years to get to make after this. Is it? Yeah.
It took six years. This is the sound of the film. He had to make a film. I've said it like, you know, I can read it.
I'm like, I just go in the sitting room. I'm like, I'm a big girl today. To the guy who's bigger today. Can I say it?
Can I say big titty titty? It was a floppy dikit. It was a floppy diick tit. It was a big flaasted shower salami to hit.
I don't want to get too far ahead of myself, but I did. We were going to talk about the dick first. Well, I just like I messaged dates. Yeah.
But before, when I was watching it this time, I was really like, I've seen this movie countless times, especially the back house, because it's like on TV a lot. And I'll put it on and just be like, I'm going to watch the end of this movie. You talk to me? Oh yeah, I love having TV.
It's the best. I've been thinking again back in the TV. You got to have you got to have people. I mean, like we have all of like basic cable, all the sports channels and it's beyond showtime.
Yeah, that stars not stars. Root, synapse. No, the movie channels I miss haven't the movie channels are kind of fun to have, but that's how I watch at the end of gongirl. So many kind of movies that you've seen.
And I like that. I like it. Yeah. But I guess I was just saying that like this time I just really honed in on the dick because I knew we were going to talk about it.
So I was just like, I gasped at the world premiere of this film when I saw the dick. I've been with it since day one. I was with among the first people to see it. And I was like, Oh shit, like, you know, I was right there with it.
And as I was walking out, I was like, you know, a little glimpse of and the people like really? Like immediately I had the experience of some people not really clocking. Yeah, people didn't clocking. And I saw this one at least twice in theaters and I feel like my my opinion on the dick changed depending on where I was sitting in the theater too.
You know, it is kind of like, and some people were like, I didn't see it all. And it's like, might have been a mad problem. You know, with the projection at your theater, like it is the kind of thing you can kind of miss like the for a man who is so compositionally specific, he does not construct that frame to draw your attention to the dick. You need to know I'm looking for the dick and it's only at the one.
Okay, embarrassing. Okay, move off the subject. I think that's under discussed is that you also see on the Neil Patrick Harris's thing. No, I was like, I was like, that's under discussed as you see it immediately and it's covered in blood.
Yeah. It's got bloody dick. But I mean, it's not both of these are incidental viewings of nudity. It's not like the movies like, zoom in and playing like a guitar, which maybe that kind of sounds fun.
Well, when you see Neil Patrick Harris's dick, you are in the middle of going like, Jesus Christ and the music is going like, you know, and you're like, Oh my God, like you're not really like the reason why it always jumps out to me when I watch it is the kind of thing. Yes. This is what are part does it? This is just right at the start.
Marie just texted us about the button episode having a lot of dick talk, which I didn't even remember. And I'm like, what's what are we doing? Dick's in the button episode. Apparently, you're not checking your texts.
Yeah, it was. Look, the thing about the Neil Patrick Harris dick, and this is the point, this is so your point of it being kind of incidental nudity. Every time I watch the movie and she's about to dismount him, I'm like conditioned by watching so many other movies that don't do this where I'm like, how are they going to frame this so you don't know. Yeah, go sneak it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. Right. There's somehow suddenly his underwear is back up or whatever it is.
Right. Well, but she could have done that. Of course, but I see those moments in other movies where I'm like, you're cheating and it took me out of it for a second. In fact, it jumps out to you less watching this because you're just like, oh, they're not cheating.
They're doing the thing you actually see in this moment. This is an episode on Gone Girl. Our guest is Esther's document. Hey, what's up?
We're going straight into the deep end. Yes, welcome, Esther, to Blank Check for basically, so we're saying it's your sixth time. Last time we said it was my fifth time, but we can just say it was my fifth time this time. The asterisk is it's your fifth film discussed on Blank Check, not including special things.
We just did an episode with Katie rich recently that will come out 15 years from now. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Katie has an asterisk on her record because of the Titanic episode being split into, but I've always argued because kill bill style that was shot as one episode.
It should count as one weathers. I'll do anything. I did. You coming back to the studio.
You did. Which is true. But still, this is your fifth film discussed on the show. I think I did.
I'm sorry. You get to fifth episode. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Um.
Let's just talk about it. Let's just say it's a dicks booking issues. Do you want to know who couldn't make it for Saudi action? We talked about that.
We talked about that. We don't know, I think we had there was a. No, we shouldn't. I'll just say this, there was another episode we offered that I think would have been good.
Yes. I get it. I had two options. You had a good backup.
I got a bad backup. I got a bad backup. We need to put that back. We need to book that now.
We do need to book that now. There was I think a pretty there was a channel of transparency on all sides. I would have I would have bowed down and sort of exited gracefully. was a famous person where it was like specifically might be a very good fit for this episode.
Of course. And there was a pathway to that person and it like took a while to pin down whether or not it was going to happen. Yes. But you had pinned this very early on for a very specific reason that I think we should just get out of the way.
Oh really? Is there a reason for my room? Well, no, I mean, it was it was you said you wanted to share this anecdote. Well, yeah, it was funny because Oh, I know.
So Bob, my boyfriend had told me like when we watch this movie, we were not together when this movie came out in 2014. We got together the following year. He was dating someone else on this movie. He was dating someone else when this movie came out and they saw it together.
B-E-S. B-E-S and afterwards, afterwards, apparently she told him that she would like to do this to him. She's like, wait, wait, wait. That's what it was.
She was like, I'm going to gongrel. She was like, she was like, I would like to gongrel you basically. But like she said that's a sort of like, I'm so mad at you. So I would now want to gongrel you.
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay.
Let's be weird if it was like how we're doing great. It'd be so fun to gongrel. No, no, no. It was said in the heat of an argument or was it not?
No, I think it was more just like casually after they saw the movie. Maybe a gongrel. Yeah. So it was just like walking out of the theater, like that might be the solution.
Here's my take. Yeah. I think, okay. So the world of this movie, yeah, where Jesus, what's her name?
Amy. Amy. Amy. Amy.
Amy herself. Amy Don. Doesn't get mugged by friend of the show, Lola Kirk. And a queen since the show, Boy told Rook just kidding.
We don't know him. He was supposed to do the congrel. That'd be funny. I guess we could have asked Lola.
I didn't even think of that. I don't know where Lola is. What happens sometimes we're covering a movie. People who've done the movie never really want to do that.
No, I don't think we want them to do it. We mentioned it to Max. About social network and he was like, oh, no, I would want to. No, I even felt like we framed it to Max as like, if you wanted to be another fincher, worked with Incher, would you want to do anything other than social network?
But it always just feels like even Sagstrike issues aside, which makes it like this is the one time we couldn't do this. Right. So I want to be able to talk about that. That's also not what the format of our show is.
If people are insight with the. Yeah, no, it isn't. But not this specific. So you want like 10 minutes of people talking about the dick.
Sure. I mean, I would have thought on that. But if you hadn't been mugged by Lola. If she sort of, her plan succeeds and she gets away to wherever.
I don't know what her next step is. I mean, she's going to kill herself as part of it. That's what she has on the. Yeah.
Kill. Kill myself. Question mark. Yeah.
Well, I think part of it is that she's just like, I don't know how this ends. I guess that's what I have to do. Yeah. She has to have the death penalty.
And she's like, she's like, all the time. Yeah. Okay. Because I was wondering, like, I guess if she shows up dead, but like, could she actually, my point is I think she's actually worse at this than she thinks she is.
Which the movie is sort of. I think the movie is very very bad. Really bad job. Yes.
I mean, Lola Kirk literally says like you, I mean, Lola Kirk doesn't pin that she is Amy, which is like, which is a clever, actually, a clever idea. She's like, I don't actually care. You just have money and you just like, Kirk pegs that she is really bad at like hiding that she's hiding something. Right.
And they are like, you're a rich person. Like, you know, she lets the money bag fall. She she doesn't respond to the name. She gives herself like, yeah, she doesn't think she thinks things through up to the point where she leaves.
And then once she leaves, right, her focus is all on him on like, how do I do to make him look bad? Because that's why I'm doing this. But like, could he have gotten away with it? Is my question?
Could he have gotten away? Correct. Now, if she kills herself, you know what? Even if she does try to stage her own death in a way that looks like he did it.
Yeah. Would he get away with it? He hires Tanner Balt and Tanner Balt's like, what kind of moron would kill a woman in his house and then invite the cops over and have this orgy of evidence, you know, what kind of a, you know, like, you know, I mean, like, can he get away with it? I think if the body shows up, he's fucked.
Yeah, I think if the body shows up and it's like, not consistent with what happened, because it wouldn't be and Tanner Balt's he's the best employer that is. I mean, Tanner Balt is I don't know, I don't think he gets away with it. I don't, I don't think he might get away with it. I think if she doesn't, I mean, to be clear, getting away with it in that he did not commit the crime.
Right. Right. Right. But like, he walks.
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
He's he's he's he's acquitted. I don't think he walks. All right. I mean, I'm like trying to like, compare this in my mind to other sort of like media sensation cases, but I think a lot of them like the one that just, um, uh, yes, where a lot of it was like, the lack of the body for so long.
Yeah. When it's a disappearance, people kind of live in the ambiguity for longer, whereas I think when a body shows up and there's the sort of like visceral emotional element of like, we found a damaged body, there was such a bloodlust in the media that I think like does translate over into the courtroom. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, obviously part of what is good about this movie as well is that he's kind of bad at being accused. Right. That's what I was saying.
Right. But then he kind of is starting to get good at it. Yes. But he also was good at it in a way where he's trying to appeal to her.
You know, she's still out there. All that, you know, right. And the moment it's just fun to think the moment that he gets good at it is the moment she falls back in love with. Yes.
And in a way, falls like in love with the truer version of it. Yes. But also she's, I'm going to say this. She's a little cuckoo.
No, she's amazing. I don't know. She doesn't seem so good. I think there's a little ruse.
I think she's a girl boss. Yes. Yeah. Okay.
You agree. I agree. She's a girl boss. I think she's a girl boss.
She's a girl boss. Yeah. Play cream. Yeah.
She got that back. Right. She actually kind of lost the bag. Yeah.
She loses definitively loses. She has a bag of hands over her. She has taken from her. Yeah.
By Willa Kirk with a very visible cold story, which I have always focused on every single time I watch this movie. Yes. May well be. Well, it's still good.
No, I mean, I guess she's really good. Yeah. She's better than Boyd. I actually think Boyd is kind of a non-fact.
Which is fine. I guess. I like him as an actor. Yeah.
Yeah. He's meant to just be kind of a silly doofus. I mean, I was, I watched this with the Fincher commentary and he was saying like, I like how irrelevant he is to her immediately the moment he's introduced. Yeah.
Like he's sort of like out of focus in the back of the shot as Lola is talking to Amy about like how much boyfriends suck. Right. Right. Right.
Yes. Yes. Yes. She's good.
Everyone's good in this movie. Everyone is good. I think Amy is a bad person. I'm just saying.
I disagree. It's like queen. It's like queen. I also just want to be a lawyer.
She's a queen. She's a queen. I'm not even at life. Well, it's a father of a daughter.
There's a lot of language being thrown at me right now. So I was like, I'm really. Not to bring up my, not to bring up another point of discussion that we will get to later. But a person who was going to star in this movie, Reese Witherspoon, had a quiddie show that I love called Fierce Queen.
And we'd like her to return to the net. We're so quick. Yeah. We called Fierce Queen's, which was about, which was a nature show about animals that were Fierce Queen.
Gotcha. So in the same way, Amy is a sleigh queen because she actually slays. These are fierce queens. There's been fierce.
Sheena and all the commentary that Reese did was like, you go girl, boss, sheena. Yeah. I mean, and as we all know, that got one, bajillion quibi hits, which is a metric of my personal algorithm, which I will not reveal how it's actually hits. Compunches.
I also just want to point out that I want to fill in views. Views count as someone even thinking about it or, you know, I was punched. Can I also just find out that I really love my boyfriend, Bob, and I do not want to gong girl together. That's why you are with him.
But you at no point have ever considered gongirling. No, no, and I think it's good to establish that. Yeah. I just want to make it clear.
I just want to make it clear. Because that way, if you do end up gongirling him, it's on later point in time, you've already established that you don't want to do it. I heard that. Yeah, that's true.
That's alibi. But I recently visited. You're going to feel near to? I went to Rochu City and I bought Quibi back.
It's lovely this time of year. So purple. Yeah. Just disguised at its most purple there in October.
The trees, the leaves are turning purple. And I went to a little purple office and I bought Quibi back for five Quibi bucks. And so now I do own Quibi. So you can bring back Fierce Queen.
And so well, we're trying to get Reese on the phone, but unfortunately, she's just a circle. No, I've heard a rumor and I understand it because the stock market's on this information. So if you can't say that, if you can't confirm, deny on my, yeah. FCC coming out of me.
I've heard you guys are doing R&D into the idea of doing longer bites. Really long. Long, long, long, long, long, long. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Definitely. I mean, everything's on the table.
Right. Right. Right. The Quibi's going to rebrand as the king of Slovenia.
Remember when it was a year of like, no, no, people want this. People want this. People want this. And then it came out and it was like one day in it was like Quibi has failed.
Well, it also came out. I know. I know when it came out, but still. Yeah.
Anyway, I'll be back. Clear for a year or two leading into it that no one wanted it. And then it came out at the time and under the circumstances that would accelerate its death so to such an extreme degree that they bought Super Bowl ads that are like, you know that feeling of being stuck waiting for your table at a restaurant? And people are like, no, I don't know that.
I fucking have been ordering in for six months. Could be launched on April 6, 2020. It's like, it's like, you should just go on a tombstone. Yeah.
Like just like cause of death launched on April 6 2020. It should help. Oh boy. Anyway, could be doing better than ever.
Just to be clear and obviously we're really excited to work with Reese again. And every time I say that after read the statement that was given by her attorney, Reese with a spoon will not be working with Quibi in any shape or form ever and perpetuity forever and ever. Oh man. But we might be working with this movie.
Reese with a spoon who's starting to build out her sort of Southern Oprah dynasty sees this book with her producing her shine. Yes, correct. She buys this. I mean, hell, sure.
And this is in her sort of post wild like Reese has taken back the rate. Not the same year. You know what? Yeah.
No. That's okay. Yes. But but all this to say, she's clearly in this headspace of like, I kind of want to get back to doing serious work.
I want to find material that I can adapt for myself. Takes this book has a smart idea. Bring fincher on board. Fincher immediately says, by the way, you're not sorry.
Well, okay. All right. Okay. Okay.
Let's talk about it. David Finch, which I think is the right decision. Well, we have to discuss that. That is the the question that must be answered.
I think we all coming out the same year as this like vindicated of like she ended up in the better thing for her. I have a take. But we'll talk. I think the answer is yes.
Yes. Or at least I like to float. Yeah. It would be something good.
But fincher David fincher. So his film before Gone Girl of course is Girl with a Dragon Tattoo. Yeah. You're fan?
Yes. But I haven't watched it that much. So good. Um, he's doing well.
I maybe that's a slight ding underperformed but it still did well. Yes. As much as it underperformed a little bit. I also think people were like, maybe we we pumped up our expectations too high for this thing.
Maybe we should blame him for executing the thing incorrectly. But obviously there's no sequel to that happening. And instead while he's working, I think on the social network, he had signed with Disney to make 20,000 leagues under the sea, taking over from their first choice, McG. Of course.
Not joking. And Scotsy Burns writing the script. Yes. So big writer.
He wants to do it with Brad. He wants to do it with Brad. Daniel Craig and Channing Tatum supposedly are both considered at some point. His version of the movie would cost over $200 million.
He's going to make it in Australia. Right. And Disney has a very short list of like, if you get one of these five guys, it goes. He said it became this bizarre endeavor to find which three names you could rub together to make a platinum.
He wanted the French character of an ex to be French. I assume Disney was not interested in that. They were like, yeah, it's been a dicomber French. Whoever it is a bad hero.
Whoever the bed to cover batches of 2010. Channing Tatum, I suppose, put a mustache on him. Might be funny. So it does fall apart.
It's one of many spincher swings we never get to see. He's always in interviews with that one. He always talks about like, I wanted to make my empire strikes back and that I have always found his astonishing how dark empire strikes back is while working as a movie for children. And I thought I could, I had it in me to maybe thread that needle once to make something on a blockbuster scale.
I mean, you read the shit where he's like, it was going to be Osama bin Nemo. Nemo is going to be a Middle Eastern Prince of the wealthy family who decided white imperialism is evil and should be resisted. We were going to put kids in a place where they would agree with everything he espouses. It sounds amazing.
But take issue with the means. Yeah, it sounds cool. But Disney is probably like, what? Osama bin Nemo.
We don't want to do that. Let's also say he's like starting that movie is being developed, you know, by McG in the area that we've talked about a lot where Disney is like, we need things that boys like and they don't have them. And over the time that Fincher is trying and failing to get this movie off the ground, Marvel and Star Wars get acquired. And they're like, we never need to make a John Carter ever again.
We don't need to make Tron legacy. We don't need to try to like mine our part. We're going to buy the IPs rather than trying to invent it whole cloth. Now, we'll probably see some attempts at invention again coming soon.
Cleopatra, we discussed this movie a little bit with Angelina Jolie. He is attached to that taking over from Paul Greengrass. That was originally a James Cameron project. That's a specific project.
It's the same one that Gulls the Dote. Right. But Patty Jenkins left it. Who's supposed to do it now?
He's the queen of leaving projects. I don't really know. Why is it the Cleopatra movie almost feels like a project meant to help you negotiate for the project you actually want? Right now, if Cari Scoglin.
Yes. Coming hot off of Black Mountain in the winter. Oh, yeah. No, that was it.
Sorry. It's the wrong person. It's just an absolute victory lap for everyone's favorite Disney plus show. Yeah, she's done a lot of TV.
Like that does not seem like someone I would hand a colossal project like that. But I don't know. When Avatar came out and Fincher Cameron was like, I might actually have some more Avatar stories in me. And Fox was like, okay.
And he's like, if you're so much, you have to pay me. And they're like, you said this. Well, right. You said Cleopatra is what I've read.
And I feel like, well, you're a flirty with Cleopatra. Yeah. I'm just need to be quick. Yeah.
Anthony and her had sex, but Julius and her, we don't actually know. Yeah, that doesn't mean they didn't flirt. I'm sure I'm saying consummated. Yeah.
What's the other unrealized Fincher project, Griffin? In this era? Yes. Specifically.
Star Wars episode seven. Of course. Kathleen Kennedy definitely talks to him about it. The first two aspects of her order are her and Brad Bird.
Yeah. Or him and Brad Bird. Supposedly the first ask was Nolan, and Nolan just was like, like, you know, and then they did the courtesy Nolan ask. Right.
And then it's Fincher and then Brad Bird. Right. Brad Bird says, I would do it if I weren't doing Tomorrowland. So, Sajan, I think he probably backs up 100% of this day.
And Fincher says, like, what you give me complete autonomy? And she's like, what the fuck are you talking about? She gave her directors more autonomy than most, but yes. Yes.
Yes. He also allowed certain someone to be frank in between these two movies, tattooing, going girl. Which is important because he's had the success of House of Cards, which he gets less involved in as the show goes on, but he makes a tremendous amount of money over and Netflix, as they often do, pays a bunch of money to like earn his shine and use it to boost their whole profile. It is crazy to think back.
I remember sitting in that dinky Atlantic office, the day House of Cards came out. And sort of before it came out having no- The Soho office or the book ever. Yeah, the Soho office and having no real sense of what it would mean that there was a show on Netflix. Maybe it comes out and everyone starts watching it and just being like, Oh, this isn't even- People didn't even love it.
They liked it. They liked it. But also everyone watched it within that first weekend and just sort of realizing that that was a thing that was going to happen now. It was sort of like thinking back to it.
It's like sort of strange. They also took it 10 years ago. It sucks. It hit and then it very quickly like Netflix immediately had the kind of reputation that HBO and AMC briefly thought to have of like, Oh, does Netflix have like a brand identity that is a marker of some consistent level of quality?
It was briefly. The briefly for about the first year, if Netflix had a show, it was interesting. Right. It was the equivalent of like HBO putting something you want Sunday.
And now, it's still true. Every Netflix show. I'm watching these later digital Fincher movies recently and knowing that he starts doing the shows around this time. We all complain about like the sameiness of how all the Netflix shows look and Netflix has basically a style guide that they impose on most shows.
It does feel like as much as I love the way that Zodiac Dragon Tattoo Social Network and Gung Girl look, I do watch these movies now and go like, Oh, we're kind of living in a world where everything is forced to look like a bad Fincher project. It's horrible. It's like, but yeah, it's way, it's way not as- No, it's watered down. What even is Netflix prestige now?
Genuine question. What's like their most prestigious, I guess the crown. The crown is still, I mean, but then I mean, besides that, there's a sort of sub universe, which I like, but it's very much its own thing of the Mike Flanagan shows. Well, but that's it's that's over there.
Yeah, I mean, that's done. He's left. Yeah, now he's done. I mean, fall in the house of mushroom is really fun though.
I mean, he's like, he makes fun shits, but I'm talking more about their like shitty dramas, like their junkie dramas. The diplomat? Oh, sure. Yes.
That I think look like crappy Fincher. I don't watch those shows. You know why? I don't watch them.
You know why? You don't watch them. Why? Because you don't like bad things?
Yeah, I don't want to. I also think they have started to look less like crappy Fincher. The diplomat sort of like looks like 24. I mean, or like the diplomat or Harry Russell.
It's pretty fun because just sort of like it's she's a diplomat. She's a diplomat. It's like not smart, but it's like very, but it's very entertaining and she's great to watch. So, Harry Russell's the diplomat, Richard Madden's the bodyguard.
Yeah. What's the one with the kid from Super 8? I don't know where he's like the agent or something. I don't know.
I know. I can't keep up with this. It was garbage. I know.
Other Netflix prestige thing just to close the circle on this, which is its own thing is also the Bridgerton stuff, which is quasi prestige. I know, but it's quasi prestige and they're still trying. The agent is the one I was thinking. I don't know.
I don't know. I like my knight managed by Tom Hiddleston not to have an agent who is from Super 8. And I like my agents in broad daylight. Yeah, I have no idea what they're saying.
Jill and Flynn. Okay. Guys are forgetting that Emily went to Paris. Oh, yeah.
Emily went to Paris. And that's pre-persistent. They buy a lot of this shit. They buy it all.
That was made for a channel. Listen to me. They can go. They're all right.
I don't care. Now, as Netflix page checks are about to stop showing up, notoriously kind of all Netflix projects. David, if they make something good. I am next to you.
I think you're more critical. Yeah, they've been mad at me a moment. David? Yes.
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So I always, well, drag my friend Gillian Flynn. Is it Gillian? I believe it's Gillian. Went to E.
W. And would always try to write novels. She said she had many failed attempts and then read Dennis Lohan's Mystic River, which in my opinion is an incredible piece of writing that was turned into a flawed movie. His worst adaptation.